Nature : collaborations in design / Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, co-organized with Cube Design Museum ; Andrea Lipps, Matilda McQuaid, Caitlin Condell, Gene Bertrand.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Lipps, Andrea, author.

McQuaid, Matilda, author.

Condell, Caitlin, author.

Bertrand, Gène, author.

Contributor:

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, issuing body, host institution.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Cube Design Museum, host institution.

Conference Name:

National Design Triennial (6th : 2019 : New York, N.Y.; Kerkrade, Netherlands), organizer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Environmental aspects--Exhibitions.

Design.

Sustainable design--Exhibitions.

Sustainable design.

Human ecology--Exhibitions.

Human ecology.

Climatic changes--Exhibitions.

Climatic changes.

Design--Environmental aspects.

Genre:

Exhibition publications.

Exhibition catalogs.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

240 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed Worldwide by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, [2019]

Summary:

Designers today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. While the modern industrial age gave way to designs that vastly improved human enterprise through technology, there were unintended and destructive consequences for the environment. Humans are intrinsically linked to nature yet our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider the impact of every design decision, from an artifact's manufacture and use to its obsolescence. Designers are aligning with biologists, engineers, agriculturists, environmentalists and many other disciplines to design a more harmonious and regenerative future. Based on these new partnerships, designers are asking different questions and anticipating future challenges, which not only change the design process, but also what design means. 0'Nature: Collaborations in Design' includes over sixty-five international projects from the fields of architecture, product design, landscape design, fashion, interactive and communication design, and material research. More than 300 compelling and exquisite photographs, illustrations and content from data visualizations illustrate seven essays, which explain and explore designers' strategies around understanding, simulating, salvaging, facilitating, augmenting, remediating and nurturing nature. Four conversations between scientists and designers delve into topics related to synthetic biology, scientific versus design lexicon, and recent shifts in the meaning of nature with a glossary illuminating scientific, technological and theoretical concepts and processes invoked by the designers.--Exhibition: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, USA & CUBE Design Museum, Kerkrade, The Netherlands (10.05.2019-20.01.2020).

Contents:

Introduction / Matilda McQuaid

Understanding Nature / Caitlin Condell

Next Nature / Michael John Gorman and Koert van Mensvoort conversation

Simulating Nature / Andrea Lipps

Paracrafting Landscape / GT2P and Volcanologist conversation

Salvaging Nature / Gene Bertrand

Facilitating Nature / Andrea Lipps

Synthetic Biology / George Church and Daisy Ginsberg conversation

Augmenting Nature / Andrea Lipps

Remediating Nature / Matilda McQuaid

Design and Science Linguistics / Suzanne Lee and Nadine Bongaerts conversation

Nurturing Nature / Caitlin Condell

Glossary / Margaret Simons

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Cube Design Museum, May 10, 2019-January 20, 2020.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Other Format:

Online version: National Design Triennial (6th : 2019 : New York, N.Y.; Kerkrade, Netherlands), organizer. Nature

ISBN:

9781942303237

1942303238

OCLC:

1053994284

Publisher Number:

99988126495